Sen Du, our beloved husband, father, and grandfather passed away peacefully at 8 AM on November 29,2022 at the age of nearly 86. Sen was born in 1936 in Anqiu, Shandong to Anliang Du and Lihua Wang. Sen grew up with his older brother and mother until he was eleven years old when his father Anliang reunited with them after returning from U.S., where he was sent to study/work by the Chinese government. Sen earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (5-year program) at Tsinghua University in1958 and volunteered to go to frontier province Yunnan after graduation. He worked on a variety of design /testing roles in machinery/agricultural machinery/machine tools at Yunnan Bureau of Machinery Industry, Yunnan Bureau of Agricultural Machinery, and Yunnan Agricultural Machinery Institute, and later as technical leader for machine tool designing at Qujing General Machine Factory. From the late 70's he worked as Mechanical Engineer/Senior Mechanical Engineer in multiple areas of performance testing of machine tools at Yunnan Machinery Research Institute. Sen was a multilingual expert in machinery who translated numerous technical articles from English, French, Russian and Italian into Chinese and wrote abstracts for professional periodicals for 20 years in a row. He also took on a variety of other work in translation including being a translator for the onsite installation of a full set of imported large natural gas chemical equipment. Sen published multiple articles on professional journals including Lifting and Handling Machinery , Transfer Machine Information , and Yunnan Machinery .

Following his father's footstep, Sen came to U.S. at the age of 53 as a visiting scholar conducting research in manufacturing technology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He later worked as Machine Designer/Machine Design Engineer for several companies including National Manufacturing, Dorman Machine Productions, and General Resources Corp, for which he contributed by designing and improving many mechanical equipment/machines including dough mixer, container jack stand, filters, and auto-exhaust & welding fume removing equipment etc. In his retirement, Sen enjoyed translating ancient Chinese poetry into English and writing articles and poems. He published several books including: Du, Sen. A study on Mrs. Ai-Ling Zhang . Outskirts Press, 2008.; Du, Sen., et. al. Understanding China Via Poetry-A selection of 108 Chinese poems . Infinity Publishing, 2010.; Du, Sen. Yujun Chen. Ancient Melody with Novel Voice-108 Quatrain from Tang Dynasty . HUST Press, 2011.; Du, Sen. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam . HUST Press, 2014.; Du, Sen. The 108 Quatrains of Omar Khayyam . Litfire Publishing, 2015.; and Du, Sen. 108 Chinese Poems from ShiJing & 108 Chinese Ancient Quatrains before 77BC . Litfire Publishing, 2018.; among others. Before his passing, Sen was still working on some of unpublished works including interpreting the Book of Change in English from Chinese.

Sen is survived by his wife of 57 years, Yujun Chen; their two children, Ling (husband Xiaolin) and Hong (wife Jin) and his two grandchildren, Claire & Mingda.

Sen will always be remembered as an independent thinker with passion, a diligent engineer driven for innovation, a multilingual professional full of curiosity, an upright intellectual seeking spiritual truth, as well as a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend.

Our wishes will be always as the poem below depicted in Sen's translation work on one of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

"You have reached the finish line of the life's journey.

Be please with yourself in your grave and carefree.

Oh! In hundreds of thousands of years,

Life will revive from the soil as grass."

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各位亲友:

我亲爱的丈夫都森先生于二零二二年十一月二十九日早八时在家中于睡梦中安祥辞世,享寿八十六岁。

都森先生1936年出生于山东省安丘县,父都安良,母王丽华。都森幼年与大哥陪伴母亲于山东老家,直至47年其父民国公派赴美提前一年回国方家庭团聚。1958年清华大学机械制造工艺及其设备毕业(五年制)。原云南省机械研究设计院高级工程师,美国内布拉斯加大学访问学者,科技情报翻译专家。他1958年清华大学毕业后志愿支边到云南,作为工程师/高级工程师先后在省机械厅,省农机厅,省农机所,曲靖通用机械厂及省机械研究设计院勤垦为农业机械化事业及机床的设计,性能试验, 检测和机床产品质量监督工作等工作贡献31年。都森先生精通六国语言(英,法,俄,西班牙,意大利,葡萄牙),英语受父亲都安良熏陶,法语师从著名学者沙德珍老师。他长期从事科技情报的多种语言文字的翻译工作,在国家级情报核心刊物上发表过由俄、英、法、意文翻译的科技文章几十篇。为《机械制造文摘》自法刊《Machine Moderne》摘作文摘,历时5年多。自1979年起为《农业机械文摘》自五种法国及瑞士期刊上摘作文摘。应《国外热处理》及《国外农机》期刊之邀.进行了若干译文的校核工作。73年参加了国家援助马里共和国茶叶农场及制茶厂项目十一个移交文件的翻译工作。76年全程参与国家第一个全套引进项目国家重点项目云南天然气化工厂全套进口设备安装的现场翻译工作,为云天化的先进设备引进工作做出杰出贡献。79年至88年期间,他在《起重运输机械》,《组合机床通讯》,及《云南机械》等专业刊物发表多篇论文。

改革开放后在其53岁时追随其父足迹赴美国访学和工作,在美国内布拉斯加大学担任访问学者,其后在国民制造公司,多门机械设备公司,和通用资源公司担任机械设计和工艺工作,并成功设计及改进了面粉仪器,集装箱起吊机,风扇及吸尘设备等多种机械设备, 为所在的公司做出切实贡献。他退休后潜心研究诗词文学,笔耕不辍,经常在明州日报发明小文和诗词。先后出版作品包括《诗经108首选译》,《古韵新声:唐诗绝句英译108首》,《柔巴依108首选译》等。

我和都森相识六十年,结婚五十七年,相濡以沫,痛惜夫君先逝。都森先生知识渊博,勤奋好学,耿直善良,克己奉公,爱家敬业,先人后己,刚正坚强,是子女后辈的人生楷模和榜样。他在近八十六岁时写给原单位的回忆文中,依然强调人生的法宝就是"学习学习,再学习!"

我和子女孙辈向都森致以最后的告别:"感激您今生伴我们同行,期待我们来生再会!"

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妻 陈玉筠

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都森先生告别仪式追悼会于2022年12月9日9点至11点半在Alameda 殡仪馆举行,遗体于下午一点火化升天,妻子玉筠老家凤庆新崇祯寺在火化同时做法事送都森先生升入西方极乐世界。骨灰已回家中供奉安息。